... one of the sources of Japan's "credibility gap" in its dealings with Indian nationalists during World War II. GRANT K. GOODMAN University of Kansas Catalogue of Malayalam Books in the British Museum: With an Appendix Listing the Books in Brahui, Gondi, Kui, Malto, Oraon (Kurukh), Toda and Tulu. EDITED...

...Paul Hockings Toda Songs . By M. B. Emeneau . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1971 . xlviii, 1004 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Indexes. $35.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 446 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES is a clearly written, sophisticated and in most...

...Paul Hockings The Toda of South India: A New Look . By Anthony R. Walker . New Delhi : Hindustan Publishing Corp. , 1986 . xx, 371 pp. $40.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 691 The editor maintains that the aim...

... and in most places successful application of the latest methods in phonological description to HindiUrdu. It should interest anyone in the field of Indie languages and linguistics. PETER EDWIN HOOK University of Michigan Toda Songs. BY M. B. EMENEAU. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. xlviii, 1004 pp...

... STUDIES is a clearly written, sophisticated and in most places successful application of the latest methods in phonological description to HindiUrdu. It should interest anyone in the field of Indie languages and linguistics. PETER EDWIN HOOK University of Michigan Toda Songs. BY M. B. EMENEAU. Oxford...

... of "otherness" in South Asia. RICHARD H. DAVIS Yale University The Toda of South India: A New Look. By A N T H O N Y R. WALKER. New Delhi: Hindustan Publishing Corp., 1986. xx, 371 pp. $40.00. Anthony Walker presents a useful discussion of the vast literature on the Todas of the Nilgiri Hills ten thousand pages...

... of this study is the attention to Toda agriculture. Every anthropologist who has written anything about the Todas has described them as buffalo herdsmen; and up to 1962, when Walker began his lengthy fieldwork, this depiction was wholly true. But over the past quarter century the loss of grazing land...

... at the wedding feast. Ignorant of the local languages and oblivious to Wushe s historical enmity with Toda, another cluster of villages to the east of Wushe, Hiyama admitted several non-Wushe guests to enjoy the largesse. After the celebration, Wushe warriors ambushed the returning Toda men and took...

...; and Masaru Toda's "The Western Approach to Shinto: Lafcadio Hearn, Bruno Taut and Andre Malraux" compares different interpreters of Japanese religion. The essays on Hearn as an interpreter of Japan may be of most interest to Japan specialists. Ota's contribution in particular offers a fresh, critical view...

... is given for such omissions. Instead very outdated books such as those by Arthur H. Smith, Village Life in China (1899) and Chinese Characteristics (1900) are included. There does not seem to be any sound reason for the author's selection. Works on marginal peoples like the Andaman Islanders, Todas...

.... The Nilgiris are well-known anthropologically for four out of the dozen or more cultural groups living there. Especially famous are the Todas, herders of water-buffalo BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1225 with a unique religion and set of rituals centered on dairying, originally introduced to the anthropological...

... fair discussions of theories and doctrines of the Gakkai. Dr. Brannen's analysis of the "value" theories of this Value-Creating Society is especially illuminating. He even adds an examination of "a number of inconsistencies" in the presentation by Josei Toda, the second president of the movement...

... of postwar Japan, Soka Gakkai, while accepting freedom of religion, honors its prewar legacy—it admires exclusive Nichirenism held by Makiguchi Tsunesaburō and Toda Jōsei, their refusal to worship Amaterasu Ōmikami, and their endurance of state suppression. However, although cabinet ministers’ visits...

... provide funeral and festival music to the other local tribal communities notably the Todas and Badagas. But according to Wolf, the Kotas, who number less than 2,000 and are experiencing B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I A 455 a dramatic in ux of immigrant populations, continue making and remaking...

... such as the Kotas, the Todas, the Badagas, and others has reached a high degree of sophistication. This volume includes papers by Anthony Walker, David Mandelbaum, Paul Hockings, and others that summarize the heart of their lengthy research on the people of those hills. The cultural tragedies resulting from...

... of Nichiren by two modern gures, Tanaka Chigaku and Toda Jo¯sei, and their handling of Nichiren s prediction of an ordination platform (kaidan) to be established by imperial edict and shogunal decree (p. 193) within the contexts of militant imperialism and parliamentary democracy, respectively. The nal...

... at a loss. The air treaty problems with the U.S.A. continued after Benigno P. Toda became president of PAL in 1964. Also, in 1965 two new competitors, Filipinas Orient Airways and Air Manila, began operations and ended PAL's years as the only scheduled domestic carrier. Nevertheless, business was generally...

... provide funeral and festival music to the other local tribal communities notably the Todas and Badagas. But according to Wolf, the Kotas, who number less than 2,000 and are experiencing ...

... at a seventeenth century lady called "Mariko" (all I could think of was "Mari-chan no hitsuji" or "Toda Mariko no Buntaro it bothered them not at all. They loved the novel and were captivated by the mini-series. They enjoyed the Smith book thoroughly. If one is planning to use Shogun in the classroom...

...” (Piggott, pp. 77–101), was originally delivered as a lecture to a nonspecialist audience. Furthermore, differences between Western and Japanese scholarly writing styles needed to be overcome: see, for example, chapter 10, “Toda Yoshimi: Kyoto and the Estate System in the Heian Period” (Janet Goodwin, pp...